POM ID 1 - Education and its Discontents - Prof. Karaali- FA 2017

Why use background sources?

Background sources are used to provide justification, rationale, or context for your research problem. In your research, they introduce you to the theories, theorists, and approaches central to your topic. In your assignment, these are usually used to answer "why should I care about this?"

Education encyclopedias and dictionaries

Dictionaries and encyclopedias provide background information on a topic or concept.

Exploring the intersection of gender and education, this work includes entries that deal with educational theories, research, curricula, practices, personnel, and policies, but also with variations in the gendering of education across history and cultural contexts. It includes discussions on gender as a social construction.

This indispensable reference is a comprehensive guide to significant issues, policies, historical events, laws, theories, and persons related to the education of African-Americans in the United States.

In the study of multicultural education, there are key names, places, concepts, and legal actions which provide a foundation for the field. This reference includes more than 400 entries from a broad range of topics related to multicultural education, which the authors define as education geared toward reducing bias, ensuring equity, and promoting understanding of the self and others. Each item in the encyclopedia has been chosen for its value in illuminating one or more particular concerns in the field.

The Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration presents the most recent theories, research, terms, concepts, ideas and histories on educational leadership and school administration as it is taught on PGCE courses and practiced in schools and colleges today.

California Postsecondary Education Commission. The Commission closed in 2011, but data about higher education in California, including enrollment, school characteristics, transition from high school to college, and more, are still available on the site.

Literature reviews

Literature reviews

Literature reviews are articles that review and evaluate published scholarship in a specific area of research. They can help you get a feel for the background and current state of research on your topic.

Searching for literature reviews is not the same process in all databases. In general, try including key words or phrases such as literature review or synthesis in a keyword or subject (descriptor) search to locate reviews. For example: literature review and school choice.

Provides access to citations with abstracts for journals and documents in the field of education. Includes program descriptions, research and development reports, and unpublished documents. Covers education and related fields such as counseling, psychology, and the social sciences. Accession numbers starting with ED indicate ERIC documents which are available in microfiche in Honnold/Mudd Microforms or electronically through a direct link to E*Subscribe; accession numbers starting with EJ indicate journal . 1966-present. National education database sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.